Attach your parallel printer through a USB port. USB Parallel Printer Adapter. Includes a Belkin Pro Series 6 ft. USB Device cable for a quality connection. Connect a USB to Parallel LaserJet Printer Cable Using. So that I can use a USB to Parallel printer cable with. Printer driver installed ok, but.

I have recently purchased a Windows 8 PC. I have a printer (HP DesignJet 220) with LPT only port. I have located and installed the 64 bit printer driver for this printer successfully and the printer device (DesignJet 220) shows up in my printer list. (Note that I have an HP 1055 All-In-One connected by USB to this computer and it is working fine.) I have purchased and installed a USB to IEEE 1284 adapter cable and Windows 8 recognizes the adapter (automatically, without having to load any driver). Problem - When I set the printer port in the printer device window to USB003 virtual printing port, per all the instructions I have read - nothing happens. Biochemistry And Molecular Biology Of Plants Buchanan Pdf To Word on this page.

I have tried every USB port and every LPT port shown in the list. Sometimes I print a test page and get an error that the printer is out of paper (it isn't), and sometimes the printer test page goes nowhere - just stays in the print queue. The 'Enable Bidirectional Support' feature is greyed out, so I can't activate it (it is shown as unchecked). The IEEE-1284 device says no printer is attached. When I try to change the printer driver in the IEEE-1284 device window, it simply tells me that the driver is up-to-date for the device attached (which it thinks is 'none'). The printer is turned on and ready to print.